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This is a re-vlog of the video I posted last year for Memorial Day. It’s one of my favorites, and thought it deserved a re-showing on Memorial Day.

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This is serious … if you’ve never contacted your congressmen before, now is the time to start doing so.

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How would the gutting of Network Neutrality affect you?

• Google users–Another search engine could pay dominant Internet providers like AT&T to guarantee the competing search engine opens faster than Google on your computer.
  

• Innovators with the “next big idea”–Startups and entrepreneurs will be muscled out of the marketplace by big corporations that pay Internet providers for dominant placing on the Web. The little guy will be left in the “slow lane” with inferior Internet service, unable to compete.
  

• Ipod listeners–A company like Comcast could slow access to iTunes, steering you to a higher-priced music service that it owned.
  

• Political groups–Political organizing could be slowed by a handful of dominant Internet providers who ask advocacy groups to pay “protection money” for their websites and online features to work correctly.
  

• Nonprofits–A charity’s website could open at snail-speed, and online contributions could grind to a halt, if nonprofits can’t pay dominant Internet providers for access to “the fast lane” of Internet service.
  

• Online purchasers–Companies could pay Internet providers to guarantee their online sales process faster than competitors with lower prices–distorting your choice as a consumer.
  

• Small businesses and tele-commuters–When Internet companies like AT&T favor their own services, you won’t be able to choose more affordable providers for online video, teleconferencing, Internet phone calls, and software that connects your home computer to your office.
  

• Parents and retirees–Your choices as a consumer could be controlled by your Internet provider, steering you to their preferred services for online banking, health care information, sending photos, planning vacations, etc.
  

• Bloggers–Costs will skyrocket to post and share video and audio clips–silencing citizen journalists and putting more power in the hands of a few corporate-owned media outlets.
  

Blocking Innovation

Corporate control of the Web would reduce your choices and stifle the spread of innovative and independent ideas that we’ve come to expect online. It would throw the digital revolution into reverse. Internet gatekeepers are already discriminating against Web sites and services they don’t like:

• In 2004, North Carolina ISP Madison River blocked their DSL customers from using any rival Web-based phone service.
  

• In 2005, Canada’s telephone giant Telus blocked customers from visiting a Web site sympathetic to the Telecommunications Workers Union during a contentious labor dispute.
  

• Shaw, a major Canadian cable TV company, is charging an extra $10 a month to “enhance” competing Internet telephone services.
  

• In April, Time Warner’s AOL blocked all emails that mentioned www.dearaol.com — an advocacy campaign opposing the company’s pay-to-send e-mail scheme.

This is just the beginning. Cable and telco giants want to eliminate the Internet’s open road in favor of a tollway that protects their status quo while stifling new ideas and innovation. If they get their way, they’ll shut down the free flow of information and dictate how you use the Internet!

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ReVlog: Video from DougMeade.com. Visit DougMeade.com to comment on this video, and be sure to subscribe to Doug’s Feed!

Hey all, sorry for not posting a video in the past couple of weeks but things have been kinda crazy ’round here.

This week is the Motion Graphics Festival in Chicago, and I should have some footage of that coming up.

in the meantime, check out Doug’s site he has a vlog from CES which is great.

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This video was taken at the Meet The Vloggers (MTV) presentation at the Chicago Apple Store. For more videos from this event, check out the Chicago Video Blogger’s Page. Stay tuned for a DavidMeade.com special report on what happened after the presentation.

Thanks to Mason Dixon and Motion Graphics Chicago for editing this, and encouraging it’s revlog on DavidMeade.com.

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